I saw some article yesterday about this palatial new high school in Texas and the headline was something FREEDOM and TEXAS... but being in the Northeast, one of the biggest differences between here and there is the labor pool. In Texas, there is a near limitless supply of immigrant labor. Mexicans have built so much of California and Texas. They should get credit for what they've accomplished.

If you want to see the opposite of that, come to Vermont. Even if we can get a building approved there's nobody around to build it, and even if there was the cost of their labor is beyond the economic capacity of the region. The sooner we start issuing work visas for construction, the faster we will get out of the housing crisis.